A new Deconstructing Devices video explores the material composition of a single IV catheter, revealing the multiple plastic components and hidden infrastructures embedded within everyday medical devices.

Jeremy Greene presented ‘After the Single Use: Rethinking the Role of Single-Use Plastics in Healthcare’ as part of the 2026 Institute for Health and Society seminar series.

After the Single Use researcher Akhilesh Bonthu presented new research on the use of single-use plastics in forensic autopsy settings at the Telangana State Annual Forensic Medicine Conference 2026.

Akhilesh Bonthu reviews ‘Waste of a Nation’, examining how histories of waste, inequality, and consumption shape contemporary environmental and healthcare challenges in India.

'Sterilisers' is a new essay by Alice Street and Jeremy Greene in The Matter of Hospitals edited by Anna Harris that explores sterilisation as a hidden infrastructure shaping reuse, labour, and material flows in hospitals.

A reflection on the first meeting of the Infrastructures of Reuse cluster, exploring three historical sources that reveal how sterility, labour, and disposability became embedded in modern healthcare.

Dr. Sett is the first and only biomedical waste treatment facility in Senegal. Located in Sinda, 68 km from Dakar in the Thiès region, it enables public and private medical facilities to manage all their biomedical waste in a responsible and sustainable manner.